Jaipat Jain

Partner, Lazare Potter & Giacovas, LLP

Jaipat is a partner in the New York City office of Lazare Potter Giacovas & Kranjac LLP. He counsels clients on domestic and cross border development and licensing of technology, mergers and acquisitions, organization and governance of business entities, raising of capital, and a range of commercial transactions. Jaipat also actively works with litigators in connection with arbitrations and litigations.

A growing and significant component of Jaipat work revolves around India. He has represented U.S. companies going into India, and Indian companies doing business in the U.S. Matters on which he has worked include acquisitions of companies and divisions in India by U.S. corporations, organization and governance of companies in India on behalf of U.S. and European clients, acquisition of U.S. corporations by Indian companies, and asset and business purchase transactions in India between India company and India subsidiary of U.S. corporation. In New York, he regularly represents U.S. subsidiaries of Indian corporations in a variety of transactions, including as general counsel for certain technology companies. In that role, he counsels them on software development and outsourcing, employment law issues, corporate governance, protection of intellectual properties, and dispute resolution, among others.

Jaipat is Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs, member of American Bar Association Advisory Panel, member of the Asian Affairs Committee of the New York City Bar, member of the Uniform Commercial Code Committee of the American Bar Association, member of International Technology Law Association, and member of India International Centre, New Delhi.

He is a frequent speaker and panelist at business and law conferences, including as invited keynote and featured speaker. In the recent past, he has addressed lawyers and/or business executives in San Francisco on India’s legal services sector; in New York on India’s foreign direct investment policy, and on corporate governance in India; in Shanghai on mergers and acquisitions in the U.S.; in New Delhi on legal reforms, and on doing contracts in the U.S.; and in Mumbai on negotiating intellectual property law provisions.

Jaipat studied law at Delhi University, India and at Fordham University, New York. He is admitted to the bar in New York and Delhi.